Feb 10, 2021 9:00 AM
Yoko Miwa Finds Focus Amid Pandemic
What Yoko Miwa has gone through during the coronavirus pandemic will sound familiar to a lot of other working…
Yoko Miwa recorded her trio album Songs Of Joy during the pandemic.
Feb 10, 2021 9:00 AM
What Yoko Miwa has gone through during the coronavirus pandemic will sound familiar to a lot of other working…
During the pandemic, prolific saxophonist Ivo Perelman moved from Brooklyn to Brazil.
Feb 9, 2021 9:01 AM
In 2020, soon after the pandemic reached Brooklyn, Ivo Perelman’s base of operation for decades, the tenor…
The music on Monty Alexander’s new live album, Love You Madly, was recorded in 1982.
Feb 5, 2021 9:00 AM
In the early 1980s, pianist Monty Alexander was a huge draw for jazz clubs and festivals. His hard-swinging style,…
Charlie Young conducts the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Feb 4, 2021 8:37 AM
“Jazz is a very big word,” composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein assured us when he explained jazz to America in the…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Jarrett Cherner, who are married, collaborated on a new album titled Tone.
Feb 3, 2021 8:46 AM
As an aspiring jazz singer, the teenage Sarah Elizabeth Charles wanted to be Sarah Vaughan. But after writing a lot of…
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Feb 2, 2021 8:35 AM
If ever there were a time for the blues, it was 2020. In the United States, more than 300,000 people died, and many…
Aum Fidelity has issued a 10-disc box set of previously unreleased music by bassist William Parker, titled Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World.
Jan 29, 2021 8:26 AM
A tangle of connections fosters the bounty of William Parker’s career. The bassist—who’s released a 10-album set…
On For Such A Time As This, pianist Eric Reed explores a bevy of musical styles, including gospel.
Jan 28, 2021 9:00 AM
In 1966, pianist Glenn Gould sat down at the BBC to discuss, among other things, his approach to interpreting classical…
Guitarist Nir Felder (left), a faculty member at The New School, delivers online instruction to student Evan Macaluso.
Jan 27, 2021 9:00 AM
For jazz students enrolled in fall classes at The New School in New York City, the “new normal” during the pandemic…
This is Rez Abbasi’s first Blindfold Test.
Jan 26, 2021 8:41 AM
By the time he topped the category Rising Star–Guitar in the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll, Rez Abbasi already had…
